The State Government on Tuesday effected a major reshuffle in the senior IFS cadre transferring 23 officers and posting 1986-batch IFS officer SK Achrya as the Nandankanan Zoo Director and shifting the incumbent zoo Director Sudarshan Panda of the 1987 batch as the new Regional Chief Conservator of Forests (RCCF) Angul.
Though 1986-batch officer Deepak Mohanty was promoted to the Additional PCCF rank, he would be holding the same responsibility of Mines Director.
Among others, 1982-batch officer SC Mishra was posted as Forest and Environment Special Secretary. While 1984-batch officer M Satyanarayan was appointed as Additional PCCF ME&IV, his batch mates Ajit Bhartuar and Rebeca Nair were posted as WFP Project Director and OBDA Mission Director and Additional Director at PCCF office, respectively.
Harishankar Upadhyay of the 1985 batch was posted as the Regional Plant Resource Centre (RPRC) CEO while Anup Kumar Nayak of the same batch was appointed as Additional PCCF Nodal.
While PR Singh of the 1986 batch was appointed as OFSDP Additional Project Director, P Krishna Mohan and lK Tiwari were given the responsibility of the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) CEO and new Sambalpur RCCF, respectively.
Similarly, 1987-batch officer Jitendra Kumar was posted as Afforestation CCF. Sashi Paul, El Yanger Aier and Pusa Zhule, all of the 1998 batch, were posted as Brahmapur RCCF, OFDC Director (Commercial) and RCCF Bhubaneswar, respectively.
While 1991-batch officer Prafulla Kumar Mallick was appointed as CCF (GIS), KC Hansda of the 1995 batch got Insitu promotion and to continue as OFDC GM in Sambalpur.
Abhimanyu Behera of the 1996 batch was posted as Working Plan CCF while 1997-batch officer Pravakar Sethi was appointed as OFDC GM at Brahmapur while 2004-batch officer Ananda K Pravakar was posted as the Forest Training Institute Director at Angul.